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Clothes: Man wearing a breechclout, carrying a bag and an Ovambo pot, approaching a waterhole, view from behind
Clothes: Man wearing a breechclout, carrying a bag and an Ovambo pot, approaching a waterhole, view from behind
Object Number 2001.29.1560
Display Title Clothes: Man wearing a breechclout, carrying a bag and an Ovambo pot, approaching a waterhole, view from behind
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1951-1953
Culture
  • Ovambo
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: "/Qui Navel" carrying an Ovambo pot on a stick, approaching a waterhole with a group of women including !U carrying !Ungka Norna
2001.29.2253 Water: "/Qui Navel" carrying an Ovambo pot on a stick, approaching a waterhole with a group of women including !U carrying !Ungka Norna
Gautscha
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Charles Koch closing a tent, with clothes hanging on a line behind him
2001.29.10386 Charles Koch closing a tent, with clothes hanging on a line behind him
Mangetti Forest
Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
2001.29.25103 Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
Gautscha
≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.2230 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Clothes: "Old !Naishi" wearing a badger cap, sitting with his feet tucked up under him, filing an arrowpoint with a file given to him by the expedition
2001.29.1561 Clothes: "Old !Naishi" wearing a badger cap, sitting with his feet tucked up under him, filing an arrowpoint with a file given to him by the expedition
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Clothes: Child wearing a little kaross decorated with beads, standing on the hip of a woman who is sitting
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay wearing Western clothes, with a red expedition truck reading "Peabody Museum of Harvard University" behind him
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Mangetti Forest
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy